Day 345 : Occasionally you may find a leatherback turtle and perhaps even a green sea turtle hatchling (pictured here) stranded around the Cape Town coast. The Two Oceans Aquarium will be able to rehabilitate these babies. 🐢 25 x 27 mm. #365postcardsforants #wdc624 #miniature #watercolour #seaturtle #greenseaturtle #capetown (at Two Oceans Aquarium)

this was interesting, and now I’m fascinated to know your headcanons! also: is “lies tumblr url” the tag you look in for replies to you etc.?

Continuing in the manner I started (by which I mean, trying to be honest), I was guilty of some hyperbole with that line. I don’t have that much headcanon for each of my 98 follows. But the ones for whom I don’t are the new, probationary ones. For those I’ve followed for a while (you, for instance), I’ve got a whole boatload of associations.

I’ve already shared some personal headcanon privately in response to that post. Maybe I’ll post some publicly? I have to think about it. It’s potentially creepy. Which, as you now know, is an issue.

But yeah, I’ll work on that. Thanks for the note.

P.S. Oh, yeah. “#lies tumblr url” started out as my tag for answering covetous teens who wanted the ‘lies’ Tumblr URL. But some others seem to use it for general tagging of things related to me, so I’ve started (narcissistically) doing the same.

If the monsoon is good, dozens of varieties of mushrooms will pop up in the San Juan mountains in late summer. Some mushrooms will still be around after the first snow, but the peak of the season lasts from mid-August through early September.

It’s a question that’s hounded scientists for years, who have long offered competing theories about how the reptile’s iconic shells came to be in the first place.

But with the release of a new study in the journal Current Biology, there’s new evidence that shells emerged as the ribs of certain reptiles began growing broader and straighter. A video demonstrating this theory can be seen below:

The Harlech Turtle, a 916 kg Leatherback Seaturtle that washed up in Wales in 1988. Some sources (such as Bright) describe this as the “largest known leatherback”, but that’s because they didn’t pay very close attention to units. This turtle had a very impressive total dorsal curved length of 2.91 meters, but the curved carapace length was only 1.59 meters; straight carapace length is a much better measure, and Leatherbacks apparently average 1.32–1.78 m SCL, with a maximum of at least 1.98 or possibly even 2.43 meters, according to Ernst and Lovich. So just how much do the largest leatherbacks weight?!